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Design Credits

Existing Credits

Filtering all toy design credits presently on file through template

First Pass

Capital D designers, concept artists, deco artists, packaging designers here and there

TakaraTomy

Done?

Hasbro

• Going alphabetical
• Currently on Andrew Scribner

Second Pass

Packaging art

• We have a zillion packaging illustration credits on file
• Many packaging artists likely not in category yet

Bio credits

• Distinct from pack-in fiction
• Hirofumi Ichikawa is pretty much the only explicit list of credits we have that I have been able to find
• Copywriter category should function as a shortlist
• Bob Budiansky should have a zillion of these

New Credits

TakaraTomy

• Harvest G1 credits from the G1 patent database Transformerland has already curated
• Feed known designers through Japan Patent Office database for, uh, patents
• Harvest remaining info from Transformers Generations (series)
• Harvest pre-TF info from Diaclone World Guide, World Guide Next, Combat Chronicle, SF Land and SF Land Evolution, Figure King 213, 225, 264
  • Design: Keiichiro Sakuma (佐久間恵一郎) - Battle Convoy guy, Kojin Ono - everything else Diaclone guy
  • Concept art: Shoji Kawamori, Kazutaka Miyatake, Studio Nue in general

Studio Nue explainer from Necronomitron on the wiki discord I'm gonna forget if I don't write it down:

“	Hang on, here’s the basic chronology of Nue with Diaclone. In the early 70’s, before they were Nue, Miyatake (as part of Crystal Art) was working on a job for Sunrise. His boss, Kiyomi Numamoto, quit Sunrise to go work for Takara. Then Numamoto tells Miyatake, “Hey, I’ve got work for you at Takara”. So Miyatake got his start at Takara by working for Bandai. Miyatake’s first project for Takara was Henshin Cyborg’s “Cyborg Station CX-1”. He also did some early work on Microman. When Diaclone came along, he invited Kawamori to give it a shot. It seems like Kawamori was good at making the kind of robots toy companies like, with faces and stuff. From what I can tell, Miyatake’s preferences in robots weren’t usually so humanoid. Like, he designed the Macross, and that thing has a fin for a head, and battleships instead of hands. Miyatake’s real jam was spaceship interiors, like he designed the interiors of The Yamato, and Cyborg Station CX-1 is all interiors. Kawamori says he designed some kind of water gun shaped like a spaceship, as a test to see if he could hack it at designing toys. I don’t know if they actually made that thing into a toy or not. Diaclone was one of Kawamori’s first projects, and he was crazy stupid young. Miyatake was his supervisor on it. The majority of design work on Diaclone could be attributed to them, together, but the work isn’t split by character or anything. Kawamori might sketch the Robot Base, but then Miyatake might go in and design the interiors, and the pilots. After that, Takara’s engineers take what they drew, and change it completely to make a toy. Great example, look at Kawamori’s design for Inferno, which you posted from Diaclone World Guide. How much does it look like the toy? So who designed Inferno? But tracking Nue’s involvement, it wouldn’t just be design. Like Nue artists (including Miyatake) also did the paintings for the interiors of the Diaclone catalogs.	”
—Source - Interview in Dual Magazine, issue 1, 1982

Hasbro

• Make another sweep of livestreams for packaging design and product photography credits
  • Particularly for Mario Carreiro, Christina Murphy, Amy Bence, and Dave White

Cloud

• Oh god so much to do

Extra translation QC passes ahead of summaries

• Summaries presently up to Lightwave

Existing articles to fill

Concepts

• Cloud World
• G1 World#Cloud
• Aurex 103.10 Alpha#Cloud
• Primax 498.1 Alpha#Cloud
• Primax 1097.01 Alpha#Cloud
• Primax 488.12 Alpha#Cloud
• SARA
• Autobot#Cloud
• Decepticon#Cloud
• Super Mode#Cloud
• Burning justice#Cloud

A-list

• Optimus Prime (Cloud)
• Brawn (Cloud)
• Starscream (Cloud)
• Hot Rodimus
• Shockwave (Cloud)
• Roadbuster (Cloud)
• Hellwarp

B-list

• Deadlock (Cloud)
• Grimlock (Cloud)
• Thundercracker (Cloud)
• Soundwave (Cloud)

Everybody else

• Blaster (Cloud)
• Ultra Magnus (Cloud)
• Combaticon (Cloud)
• Ratchet (Cloud)
• Bumblebee (Cloud)
• Ironhide (Cloud)
• Jazz (Cloud)
• Perceptor (Cloud)
• Blast Off (Cloud)
• Brawl (Cloud)
• Onslaught (Cloud)
• Swindle (Cloud)
• Vortex (Cloud)
• Frenzy (Cloud)
• Laserbeak (Cloud)
• Ravage (Cloud)

Notes

Articles to make

I'm sure there will be more of these but off the top of my head:

• Underground (Cloud)
• Metropolis
• Spacetime Energy
• Dimension Gate
• Colosseum (Cloud)
• Data Disc Unit
• Dimension Mode

Go! Go!

Summaries that need doing

Print issues

• Up to date!

Web issues

• Go! Go! issue 22

Characters that need filling in

• Bumblebee (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!
• Optimus Prime (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!
• Wheeljack (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!
• Megatron (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!
• Soundwave (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!
• Laserbeak (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!
• Ravage (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!
• Elita One (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!
• Jazz (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!
• Grimlock (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!
• Hot Rod (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!
• Perceptor (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!
• Starscream (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!
• Ratchet (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!
• Ironhide (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!
• Long Haul (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!
• Ultra Magnus (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!
• Blaster (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!
• Eject (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!
• Shockwave (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!
• Santa Claus#Transformers Go! Go!
• Optimus Primal (BW)#Transformers Go! Go!
• Rattrap (BW)#Transformers Go! Go!
• Cheetor (BW)#Transformers Go! Go!
• Rhinox (BW)#Transformers Go! Go!
• Megatron (BW)#Transformers Go! Go!
• Dinobot (BW)#Transformers Go! Go!

Articles that might be cute

• Japanese summer festival
• Wheeljack's mecha snowman

Robotmasters

• Finish translating web prose

Current stopping point

Masterpiece

• A bunch of stuff needs machine translating

Diaclone plotline

Reboost

• Reboost's bio still needs proliferating to his fiction section
• COMPONENT X article

Delta Magnus

• Desperately needs an intro overhaul

Trainbots

• Origin updates
• Machine translate Yukikaze MP bio

Articles that need making

• Train Bazooka
• Light Sword

Transformers Character Card

• A bunch of the already transcribed material still needs translating

Diaclone

• ENTIRE FICTION SECTION
• Reorganize toy range into Real & Robo + vaguely chronological
• Discuss Ono's contributions, grab name of Battle Convoy guy, Go through/Kawamori/Miyatake/Studio Nue in general

Beast Wars: Uprising

• Comprehensive catalogue of virtual redecoes/repurposes etc

Generations Selects Special Comic

• Still the odd loose end to mop up

Articles that need filling in

• Beast People
• Neo Scramble City
• Super Mode#Generations Selects Special Comic
• Burning justice#Generations Selects Special Comic
• A bunch of Selects events on the JG1 timeline

Raptoricons

Articles that need filling in

• Chicxulania
• Velocity (ship)
• Vespoid
• Raptoricon
• Gnash
• Slice (G1)

Articles that need making

• Paul Hanley
• Greenergon
• Kolkular Powerbase

Canon as in camera crossover

• Add rest of website stuff
• Add bios from instructions
• Translate

G-Shock crossover

• Source prose story(s?) in instructions
• Record commercial somehow
• Translate

Takara Legacy bios

• Translate second wave for more Legacy World fiction